Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.

Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.

In Trump's America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has railed against undocumented immigrants in recent days, branding many of them “murderers and thieves” who want to “infest our country.”  Not long ago, he referred to them as …

Publisher of National Enquirer Subpoenaed in Michael Cohen Probe  —  Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to bury affair allegation  —  Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment …

UT/TT Poll: Most Texas voters oppose family separation at the border, with greater support among men and Republicans  —  Male Republicans support separating families trying to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico, but most other groups — and Texas voters overall — do not …

Sara Netanyahu Charged With Fraud for Ordering $100k Worth of Meals From Gourmet Chefs  —  The prime minister's wife and a deputy director of the PM's Office are indicted for violating regulations barring the ordering of meals when a cook is on the residence's staff

White House to Propose Merging Education, Labor Departments  —  Plan seen as part of a broader government reorganization effort.  —  The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of Labor and Education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, according to a person with knowledge of the proposal.

Michael Bloomberg: Why I'm Supporting Democrats in 2018  —  Republicans in Congress have had almost two years to prove they could govern responsibly.  They failed.  —  I've never much liked political parties.  I've always believed that we should put country before party.

Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show — Including $1,500 on “Tactical Pants”  —  Scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has now spent more than $4.6 million from public coffers on security, according to documents obtained …

Obama cyber chief confirms ‘stand down’ order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama White House's chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia's attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to "

The House is voting on immigration Thursday.  No one seems to know what's going on.  —  House Republicans didn't know what was in their “compromise” immigration bill the day before the vote.  —  House Republicans are in a state of chaos over immigration.  —  Lawmakers are slated …

Tech companies quietly work with ICE as border crisis continues  —  The contracts highlight how technology companies are putting their innovations to work with the U.S. government in ways that are often not visible to the public.  —  Several high-profile data and tech companies have made millions …

Michelle Alexander Joins The New York Times Opinion Pages as Columnist  —  Today The New York Times announced that Michelle Alexander will join the Opinion pages as a columnist in September.  —  James Bennet, New York Times editorial page editor, said, “Michelle is the author of …

Ex-CIA Contractor Makes Millions Flying Immigrant Kids to Shelters … The Trump administration has been paying an intelligence contractor millions of dollars to to fly immigrant children to shelters across the United States.  —  MVM, Inc has a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide …

A Texas public defender says he can't get answers for the parents who have already lost their children.  —   Erik Hanshew is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in El Paso, Texas.  —  I sat across from my new client, a petite woman from Central America in her late 20s or early 30s …

Starbucks burned by social-justice appeasement as growth stalls, stock plunges  —  Coffee giant to shutter 150 stores next year instead of 50  —  Starbucks may have appeased progressives with its social-justice workshops and open-bathroom policy, but such moves have failed to caffeinate the company's bottom line.

Giuliani's act of love sets off GOP furor  —  The bizarre tale of the ex-New York mayor's support for an obscure House candidate in Louisiana.  —  Rudy Giuliani's love life is causing trouble for the White House.  —  In a move that blindsided the West Wing and sent Hill Republicans into a tizzy …

Jeff Flake threatens to block Trump's appellate court nominees over Cuba travel, tariffs  —  Trump reverses position on family separations  —  (CNN)Sen. Jeff Flake is warning that he may block votes on the nominations of all of President Donald Trump's pending appellate court nominees unless …

Disposable America  —  A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.  Seriously.  —  A straw is a simple thing.  It's a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid.  The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it.  This is the stuff of tragedy, and America.

Socialist Activist Who Harassed Homeland Security Secretary Works For The Department Of Justice  —  One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant Tuesday night over the Trump administration's immigration policies is an employee of the Department of Justice …

Trump Plans July Meeting With Vladimir Putin  — Possibilities: Before NATO summit or after Trump's U.K. visit  — Trump wants Russia to be restored to international community  —  President Donald Trump is planning to meet with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia …

Immigration Supporters Flock to New York Airport to Meet Children  —  Immigration activists shuttled from terminal to terminal at La Guardia Airport in New York late Wednesday night, after news spread on social media that children who had been separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border might be arriving on flights.

WV-03: Why a District Trump Won by 50 Points Is at Risk for GOP  —  A coal country district that voted 73 percent to 23 percent for President Trump might sound like mission impossible for Democrats.  Yet this race could turn out be one of the wildest of the cycle.

‘Everyone Is Beautiful During Eid’  —  Here's how the people of Zanzibar celebrated the end of Ramadan.  —  STONE TOWN, Zanzibar — The particular geographic location of Zanzibar, an archipelago of semiautonomous islands off the coast of Tanzania, has created an interesting religious dynamic.

“We Are at Capacity”: An Asylum Standoff on the Bridge Between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso  —  Around 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a forty-year-old Mexican woman named Angelica walked to the foot of the Paso del Norte—one of the bridges that connects Ciudad Juárez to El Paso …

Pentagon sending military lawyers to border to help prosecute immigration cases  —  The lawyers will be appointed as full-time special assistant U.S. attorneys for as long as six months.  —  DoD agrees to DoJ request for extra lawyers on immigration cases  —  Twenty-one military lawyers …